From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms116.htm
SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE
Virginia Gowing died in 1909 in Shelby County according to “Tennessee Deaths,” Record No. 76271.
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